Looking Back: Memories of an Anti-Apartheid Activist

JL;DR SUMMARY Lorna Levy, a trade unionist and anti-Apartheid activist, shares her journey in the memoir "Radical Engagements: A Life in Exile," highlighting her activism that began in 1950s Johannesburg and led to decades in exile from South Africa. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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